Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:53:39 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.7 |
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Dominik Karall wrote: > On Wednesday 16 June 2004 07:56, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>Ok, it's out there. The most notable change may be the one-liner that >>should fix the embarrassing FP exception problem. Other than that, we've >>had a random collection of fixes and updates since rc3. cifs, ntfs, >>cpufreq. ide, sparc, s390. >> >>Full 2.6.6->2.6.7 changelog available at the same places the release is. >> >> Linus > > > Is there any reason why the sis900-fix-phy-transceiver-detection.patch wasn't > moved to the stable tree? It's a now for a long time in -mm patches and > without that patch, a lot of sis900 cards does not work in full-duplex > 100Tx-FD mode.
It still needs work, as the updated driver appears to scan the first phy incorrectly, which IMO would break _other_ situations that are presently working.
I'll try to get to it in the next couple days; the short answer is to look at other PCI ethernet drivers and note how they scan MII.
Jeff
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